Rickard Electric Beck Speedster, Owner'S Manual

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Rickard Electric Special Edition – Owner’s Manual
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battery pack.
During acceleration it is PERFECTLY NORMAL for this voltage to decrease
below 110v and lower while under load. Do not be alarmed. This “sag voltage”
is entirely normal with these cells and is simply a byproduct of demanding
large currents out of the cells.
To check your SOC, allow the car to sit for a few seconds, ten or twenty
seconds usually allows it to stabilize, and glance at the meter to see the
voltage.
VICTRON ENERGY BMV600
The Electric Edition is equipped with the Victron Energy BMV600 battery
monitor . This device is quite accurate, but not easy to read. It counts actual
amp hours out when driving, and amp hours in during regenerative braking or
charging.
The device will display four values:
I – amperes. This is the instantaneous current you are using from the battery
pack while driving, or the instantaneous current you are putting INTO the pack
during regenerative braking or charging.
CE – consumed energy. This is the number of Amp Hours net that you have
used from your battery pack. Starting from 0.0, this number will decrease
during charging or regenerative braking, and it will INCREASE during driving.
At a value of 162 Ah, it also sounds a high pitched alarm and energizes our
“limp mode” to discourage further depletion of the batteries.
There is a small toggle switch hidden on
the left side of the dash toward the
bottom edge. We call this the VALET
switch. If you are allowing someone else
to park your car while at a restaurant
for example, you can manually place the
car in limp mode with this switch.
SOC – State of Charge. This shows a
percentage of battery energy remaining
to be used. For example, if it shows
67% you have 67% of the total 180AH
still remaining to be used.